THE UNION TERRITORIES (DIRECT ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE) 
ACT, 1965 
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1.  Short title. 
2.  Definitions. 
3.  Direct election to fill the seats in the House of the People allotted to certain Union territories. 
4.  [Repealed.]. 
5.  [Repealed.]. 
6.  Provision as to sitting member. 

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THE UNION TERRITORIES (DIRECT ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE) 
ACT, 1965 

ACT NO. 49 OF 1965 

[22nd December, 1965.] 

An Act to provide for direct election in certain Union  territories for filling the seats allotted to 

them in the House of the People and for matters connected therewith. 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1.  Short  title.—This  Act may  be  called the  Union  Territories  (Direct  Election  to  the  House  of  the 

People) Act, 1965. 

2. Definitions.—In this Act— 

(a)  “parliamentary  constituency”  has  the  same  meaning  as  in  the  Representation  of  the  People 

Act, 1950 (43 of 1950); 

(b) “sitting member” means a person who immediately before the commencement of this Act is a 

member of the House of the People; 

(c)  “Union  territory”  means  any  of  the  Union  territories  of  the  Andaman  and  Nicobar  Islands, 

1[Lakshadweep] and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 

3.  Direct  election  to  fill  the  seats  in  the  House  of  the  People  allotted  to  certain  Union 
territories.—At  the  next  general  election  to  the  House  of  the  People  and  thereafter,  the  seats  allotted 
under section 3 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950) to the Union territories in the 
House of the People shall be seats to be filled by persons chosen by direct election and for that purpose 
each Union territory shall form one parliamentary constituency. 

4. [Amendment of Act 43 of 1950.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974 (56 of 1974), s.  2 

and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 20-12-1974). 

5. [Amendment of Act 43 of 1951.] Rep. by s. 2 and the First Schedule, ibid. (w.e.f. 20-12-1974). 

6.  Provision  as  to  sitting  member.—The  sitting  member  representing  each  Union  territory  shall 
continue to represent that Union territory until the dissolution of the present House of the People and if 
before such dissolution the seat allotted to a Union territory in the House of the People becomes vacant it 
shall be filled by a person nominated by the President and that person shall represent the Union territory 
in the present House of the People until its dissolution. 

1. Subs. by the Laccadive, Minicoy and Aminidivi Islands (Alteration of Name) Adaptation of Laws Order, 1974          (w.e.f. 1-

11-1973). 

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